Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 1641 Siping Defense Battle

The Siping defensive battle was fought extremely fiercely from the very beginning.

The devils launched an attack when it was dark.

This attack time is the result of Yoshijiro Umezu's deliberation:

First of all, the most important thing is that the imperial army does not have air supremacy, or it takes a lot of money to obtain limited air supremacy.

Umezu Yoshijiro did not intend to do this. Since Lushun Port was occupied by the Eighth Route Army, aviation fuel has been used less and less... The Northeast has everything but no oil, so "Manchukuo" relies on transportation from Southeast Asia for all fuel.

(Note: It is not that there is no oil in the Northeast, but that the Devils have not discovered oil in the Northeast. The depth of the Daqing Oilfield is about 1200 meters, and the Devils exploration team gave up after exploring only 1000 meters. Part of the reason for giving up was Western geologists at the time. China is determined to be an oil-free country)
Under such circumstances, Umezu Yoshijiro was unwilling to consume too much fuel at this time, otherwise he would be unable to fight due to lack of fuel when he had to need aviation in the future.

When attacking at night, there is no need to consider the air superiority of the Eighth Route Army, and the armored trains and artillery of the Empire can be dispatched with confidence.

Secondly, Umezu Yoshijiro intends to launch a fire attack in Siping.

Fire attack is most advantageous at night, because the fire fighting operations of the Eighth Route Army will fall into chaos due to lack of lighting.

For the imperial army attacking one side, the fire will illuminate the Eighth Route Army and make it a target.

Again, it was night that would provide cover for the gas bombs.

Gas bombs are different from ordinary artillery shells. Gas bombs are a yellow-green smoke.

If it attacks the enemy during the day, the enemy can find out from the color that he is being attacked by poison gas, so he will take corresponding anti-virus measures.

But if it is at night, the Eighth Route Army can't see the yellow-green smoke in the dark night at all.

If you can't see it, you have no way of knowing when there are gas bombs and when there are no gas bombs, so you will be passive in terms of anti-gas.

From this we can see that Umezu Yoshijiro's carefulness and viciousness are different from ordinary people.

The Eighth Route Army suffered a loss as soon as the war started.

The Devils did not use poison gas bombs at the beginning, but used two armored trains to start an artillery battle with the Eighth Route Army... The armored trains quickly moved their positions while fighting. suppress.

In fact, Ding Wei didn't know it was the devil's armored train at the time.

Artillery battles are out of sight, and all you can see is that the enemy fires shells and the Eighth Route Army artillery fires back at them.

The Eighth Route Army always thought that these artillery shells could hit the target and destroy the Devils artillery. As for the Devils firing again later...it was probably another artillery team of the Devils.

But when he hit Ding Wei, he felt something was wrong.

"Will the devils waste artillery with us like this?" Ding Wei said to the political commissar: "They know that we have artillery detection radar!"

At this time, the artillery stationed in Siping has two M30 howitzer battalions equipped with three sets of artillery detection radars... Ding Wei's mechanized troops only have one howitzer battalion. In order to be able to defend Siping, Wang Xuexin strengthened him with a howitzer battalion and added more One set of gun detection radar is spare.

Because Wang Xuexin knows that artillery is very important to a defensive battle, and it may even determine the outcome of the entire battle.

It's just that Wang Xuexin didn't expect that the artillery of the Eighth Route Army could hardly play a role in the Siping defensive battle, even if they had artillery detection radar.

The political commissar also felt strange: "Yeah, how many artillery guns does the devil have that can withstand such consumption? Are they... not sparing money?"

"No!" Ding Wei said, "We probably didn't destroy the enemy's artillery. These artillerymen who were firing were the same devils!"

"Isn't that possible?" The political commissar said, "We have artillery detection radar, which can be accurate every shot!"

Ding Wei didn't answer because it didn't know why.

After thinking about it, Ding Wei called the artillery unit and ordered them to send the artillery position detected by the artillery detection radar.

After the location was sent, Ding Wei connected them into a line and put them on the map as a pair, and then he understood: "It's the devil's armored train, they retreat as they attack, that's why our artillery detection radar doesn't work! "

"The devil is too cunning!" The political commissar couldn't help scolding.

At this moment, the sharp whistle outside suddenly came to mind, one long and two short.

Ding Wei's face changed slightly, it was the agreed warning sound of the devil using gas bombs.

Sure enough, in the next second the communications soldier rushed in and reported loudly: "Commander, the Devils have used gas bombs!"

The guards hurriedly sealed the doors and windows with sandbags and rags, and the signal soldier ran forward and reported in detail: "The devil's gas bombs were mixed with ordinary artillery shells, and we didn't find them for a while because it was dark. By the time we found them, it was too late. The third artillery The battalion happened to pass near the gas bombs during the transfer, and more than half of the casualties were..."

Ding Wei gritted his teeth when he heard this.

Only then did he realize that this battle would not be as simple as he thought.

The Eighth Route Army is indeed prepared for anti-virus. The problem is that the Eighth Route Army does not know when and where the devils will use poison gas bombs.

So, is it safe now or not?

Guard it!

The Eighth Route Army wrapped themselves up so tightly that even their eyes had to be covered with a layer of gauze to barely be exposed to the poisonous gas.

But what if the gas devils were not launching a massive attack at this time?

Will the Eighth Route Army's unnecessary anti-virus affect its own combat effectiveness and prevent it from fighting freely?
No defense!

If the devils suddenly fired a few poison gas bombs, would the Eighth Route Army be poisoned piece by piece?
Just like the Third Artillery Battalion, the reason why they suffered such heavy casualties was entirely because they didn't know that there were gas bombs on the route they passed.

Even if some of them smell a bit strange, they will be ignored because they are mixed in the smoke of the shells and they are undergoing a tense tactical transfer...At this time, the artillerymen are more concerned about whether the transfer speed is fast enough. It would hit itself on the head, and no one paid attention to whether there was a smell of garlic in the air.

When it was realized that something was wrong, the casualties were beyond control: 258 people from an artillery battalion sacrificed more than 20 people on the spot and injured more than 100 people.

Although there were not many sacrifices, most of the more than 100 people who were injured lost their combat effectiveness due to corrosion of the respiratory system and eyes... The damage rate of gas bombs to the respiratory system was 42%, and the damage rate to the eyes was 39%. The skin damage rate is 24.5%.

(Note: It is normal for the sum of these items to be higher than 100%, because some people have two or even three of them at the same time)
The skin can be tightly wrapped with clothing to avoid it, but the eyes must be opened to see, and people must breathe to survive. These must be solved by gas masks.

But at this time, the Eighth Route Army basically had no gas masks.

Even if there is, it is impossible to equip tens of thousands of soldiers in one go!
(End of this chapter)